Confidence is not something we are born with or inherit. Confidence is something we grow, we develop.
When I am in my zone, when I am fully in my power, it’s like MC Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This” is blaring and my winning energy explodes. My coaching is strong. My insights are clear. My actions are focused. My posture is assured. Unstoppable. Kind. Patient. Generous. When I am in my zone all cylinders are on high volume.
Even if you think others are smarter than me, more accomplished than me, more skilled, more qualified, even more beautiful than me, my energy magnetizes you. My eagerness grabs you. My spirit captures you. My confidence bewitches you.
Yes, confidence bewitches.
I remember when I attended my first Anthony Robbins “Unleash The Power Within” event and he asked, “Which story is yours: you’re not good, you’re not good enough or you’re not as good as?”
Before I even thought about which story was mine, I laughed and thought about all the others that I thought were so assured, so confident, so powerful and queried, “How could they too carry a limiting story? Impossible,” I thought. But Robbins assured me and the 7000 other participants that each of us carry a version of “I am not good” and sadly for many, that story cripples them.
Imagine, even the brilliantly talented Meryl Streep writing in her book, “I have varying degrees of confidence and self-loathing… ”
And even award winning author Maya Angelou said, “I have written 11 books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.”
Who’da thunk it possible? Meryl Streep? Maya Angelou?
Confidence was not mine for many years of my life.
My focus was on being the best Mom I could be for my son. But inside my commitment to be the best Mom I could be, I sought out opportunities to be the best me for me and I learned many things along the way about confidence. Each of these lessons came to me in the school of hard knocks,” so I feel solid in the four “slam-dunk” strategies I offer you.
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